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My phone would buzz late at night&#8230;it would be a tweet or message that the site was down <em>again<\/em>,&#8221; said Perez.<\/p>\n<p>In this case study, read about what drove Draft Breakdown to ultimately change providers to WP Engine&#8217;s digital experience platform and the tremendous site results they saw once in a stable environment.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe did our due diligence, moving to WP Engine. I was finally able to sleep at night and the site is now ready to take a significant step forward this draft season. We now have the ability to take an aggressive approach to the next phase of relevance for football fans.\u201d \u2014 Bryan Perez, Co-Founder, DraftBreakdown.com, LLC.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bryan Perez took on his passion project, draftbreakdown.com, little did he realize the amount of time he&#8217;d spend managing the technicalities of the sports media website against site downtime and security incidents. \u201cWe\u2019re a seasonal website, meaning we experience our highest traffic during the NFL draft season, which is mid-to-late November through mid-to-late May.<span class=\"tile__ellipses\">&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"tile__ellipses--animated\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"template":"","resource-topic":[912,898,909,915],"resource-role":[896,906,897,899],"resource-type":[914],"class_list":["post-27489","resource","type-resource","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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